April 24, 2017: What Is At Stake In The Hypocrisy Of Originalism?,
2017
Duquesne University
April 24, 2017: What Is At Stake In The Hypocrisy Of Originalism?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What is at Stake in the Hypocrisy of Originalism?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Other Preamble: Civic Constitutionalism And The Preamble To The Bill Of Rights,
2017
wesleyan university
The Other Preamble: Civic Constitutionalism And The Preamble To The Bill Of Rights, John E. Finn
Concordia Law Review
This Article considers the civic constitutionalist nature of the Preamble to the Bill of Rights. Civic constitutionalism is a mode of reading constitutional texts that considers power in political, as opposed to legal, terms. Thus, the civic constitution gives citizens, not judges, the primary duty for ensuring a constitutionally compliant society. This Article also presents the underlying reasons, effects, and costs of the obscurity of the civic constitution and, more specifically, the Preamble to the Bill of Rights.
April 14, 2017: The Judicial-Industrial Complex,
2017
Duquesne University
April 14, 2017: The Judicial-Industrial Complex, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Judicial-Industrial Complex“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 9, 2017: What I Learned At Pepperdine,
2017
Duquesne University
April 9, 2017: What I Learned At Pepperdine, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What I learned at Pepperdine“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 8, 2017: The Supreme Court And Politics,
2017
Duquesne University
April 8, 2017: The Supreme Court And Politics, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Supreme Court and Politics“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Gender As A Variable In Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations,
2017
Texas A&M University School of Law
Gender As A Variable In Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations, Brian N. Larson
Faculty Scholarship
Researchers and practitioners in naturallanguage processing (NLP) and related fields should attend to ethical principles in study design, ascription of categories/variables to study participants, and reporting of findings or results. This paper discusses theoretical and ethical frameworks for using gender as a variable in NLP studies and proposes four guidelines for researchers and practitioners. The principles outlined here should guide practitioners, researchers, and peer reviewers, and they may be applicable to other social categories, such as race, applied to human beings connected to NLP research.
April 2, 2017: Friday Op-Ed In The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Concerning Judge Gorsuch And Interpretation,
2017
Duquesne University
April 2, 2017: Friday Op-Ed In The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Concerning Judge Gorsuch And Interpretation, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Friday Op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Concerning Judge Gorsuch and Interpretation“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
What Is Meant By Freedom?,
2017
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
What Is Meant By Freedom?, Paul D. Callister
Faculty Works
Freedom is overlooked as a legal and social concept, with few attempts to define it. Lon Fuller articulated the critical question about freedom: “How can the freedom of human beings be affected or advanced by social arrangement, that is by laws, customs, institutions, or other forms of social order that can be changed or preserved by purposive human actions?” Freedom needs to be defined in the context of this question — as an ideal to be advanced by our social institutions, laws, and customs. The article first begins with a framework for freedom established by Lon Fuller in a neglected …
Private Rights And Private Wrongs,
2017
DePaul University College of Law
Private Rights And Private Wrongs, Andrew S. Gold
Michigan Law Review
Review of Private Wrongs by Arthur Ripstein.
Withholding Judgment: In Reading The Constitution, Judges Should Consider Their Own Morals,,
2017
Duquesne University
Withholding Judgment: In Reading The Constitution, Judges Should Consider Their Own Morals,, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals
March 26, 2017: Tom Berry Vs Tomorrowland,
2017
Duquesne University
March 26, 2017: Tom Berry Vs Tomorrowland, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Tom Berry vs Tomorrowland“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Law As Trope: Framing And Evaluating Conceptual Metaphors,
2017
Wake Forest University School of Law
Law As Trope: Framing And Evaluating Conceptual Metaphors, Harold Anthony Lloyd
Pace Law Review
Like others who work with language, many lawyers no doubt appreciate good kennings. However, metaphors also play a much deeper role in thought and law than style, ornament, or verbal virtuosity. As we shall see, metaphors play a necessary role in our categories of thought. As a result, metaphors are a necessary part of thought itself, including legal thought.
March 20, 2017: Hypocrisy On Neil Gorsuch,
2017
Duquesne University
March 20, 2017: Hypocrisy On Neil Gorsuch, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Hypocrisy on Neil Gorsuch“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 18, 2017: The Liberal Religious Cake,
2017
Duquesne University
March 18, 2017: The Liberal Religious Cake, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Liberal Religious Cake“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Does Hard Incompatibilism Really Abolish ‘Right’ And ‘Wrong’? Some Thoughts In Response To Larry Alexander,
2017
Pace University School of Law
Does Hard Incompatibilism Really Abolish ‘Right’ And ‘Wrong’? Some Thoughts In Response To Larry Alexander, John A. Humbach Mr.
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
In a challenge to recent writings of Derk Pereboom and Gregg Caruso,3 Larry Alexander makes the following claim: If one accepts the Pereboom-Caruso “hard incompatibilist” view of choice, which regards blame and retributive punishment as morally unjustified because free will is an illusion, then “normativity completely disappears.” In making this claim, Professor Alexander appears to hold that the moral distinction between right and wrong conduct (“normativity”) cannot effectively exist unless those who do wrong “deserve” to receive blame and punishment in response to their misbehavior. This is not, however, necessarily so.
March 10, 2017: Greetings From The Nootbaar Conference,
2017
Duquesne University
March 10, 2017: Greetings From The Nootbaar Conference, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Greetings from the Nootbaar Conference“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 5, 2017: Policies For The Year 2100,
2017
Duquesne University
March 5, 2017: Policies For The Year 2100, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Policies for the Year 2100“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Hegelian Dialectical Analysis Of U.S. Voting Laws,
2017
Texas A&M University School of Law
Hegelian Dialectical Analysis Of U.S. Voting Laws, Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln Iv
Student Scholarship
This Comment uses the dialectical paradigm of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1833) to analyze the progression of United States voting laws since the colonial foundations of a participatory democratic process in this country. This analysis can be used to interpret past progression of voting rights in the United States as well as a provoking way to predict future trends in United States voting rights - as an ongoing "progressive" political process or rhetorical method of erasing categories or classifications and eliminating distinctions amongst persons.
February 26, 2017: What’S The Worst Thing President Trump Is Doing?,
2017
Duquesne University
February 26, 2017: What’S The Worst Thing President Trump Is Doing?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What’s the Worst Thing President Trump is Doing?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
February 22, 2017: Harry Jaffa, No Trump Supporter,
2017
Duquesne University
February 22, 2017: Harry Jaffa, No Trump Supporter, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Harry Jaffa, No Trump Supporter“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
